22 Xi:\V YORK STATE ML'SKl ;M 



easily separates from the slightly bulbous base of the steoi and 

 adheres to the soil that surrounds it. Both it and the annulus 

 are of a beautiful, chrome yellow color. 



Tricholoma radicatum n. sp. 



PLATE 82, FIG. lo-lO 



rileus fleshy, Arm, umbraculiform or broadly convex, dry, 

 minutely silky fibril lose or obscurely fibrillose squamulose, some- 

 what shining, pale grayish brown, the center usually darker and 

 often tinged with reddish brown, the margin thin, cuticle sepa- 

 rable, flesh white, taste disagreeable; lamellae thin, close, 

 emarginate, adnexed. having a decurrent tooth, white ; stem firm, 

 nearly equal, holloA\' with a small cavity, slightly fibrillose, dis- 

 tinctly radicating, white; spores broadly elliptic, .(M)02-.00024 

 of an inch long. .()()()l()-.0002 broad. 



I'ileus 2-3 inches broad; stem 1.5-4 inches long, 3-5 lines 

 thick. Under coniferous trees. North Elba. September. 



This mushroom loses its unpleasant flavor in cooking and is 

 edible. A more full and popular description is given in another 

 part of the report. 



Clitocybe inversa (Scop.) Fr. 



Pine groves. Near Xorthville. Fulton co. August. A stout 

 form with a lliick stem. 



Mycena rugosoides n. sp. 



PI.ATK -M, lie. \7--M 



Pileus fleshy but thin, campanulate, usually broadly umbon- 

 aie, glabrous, hygrophanous, even but striate on the margin when 

 moist, paler and uneven when dry, with close irregular radiating 

 I'ngae. variable in color; lamellae subdistant, rounded or emargi 

 nate next the stem, adnexed, whitish or smoky white; stem long, 

 even, glabrous, hollow, radicating, villose tomentose at the base, 

 Avhite or pallid, often tinged with reddish brown at the base; 

 sjjores elliptic, .00(13 of an inch long. .0002 broad, granular. 



Pileus ()-12 lines broad; stem 1.5-3 inches long, .5-1..") lines 

 thick. Oregni-ious on much decayed, mossy, i>rostrate trunks of 

 coniferous trees. North Elba. September. 



Three forms occur which are separable by color. One is wholl.\ 

 white, niiolhci- has the in lens ;ni(l stem cinereous or eravish 



